ASCII: uses 8 bits to represent main Western alphabetic characters & symbols, plus several “control codes”, Unicode: 16 bit superset of ASCII providing representation of many different …

This is a very powerful concept as we can give access to a large data structure without actually making a copy of it in the runtime stack. Let us look at the concepts of pass by value and pass …

A common use of bit-level operations is to implement masking operations, where a mask is a bit pattern that will be used to choose a selected set of bits in a word.

Write a C function that extracts the 2nd most significant byte from its 32-bit integer argument.

Bit Patterns are used to represent information. Flip-flop: A circuit built from gates that can store one bit. The names are actually numbers. Numbering the cells in associates an order with cells.

A bit value of 0 indicates a place value of 0, a bit value of 1 indicates a place value as given in the picture. The total value of the number represented is found by adding up the place values of all …

Also, some instructions recognize and operate on additional pointer, bit field, and string data types. The following sections describe these additional data types.